It's very bass heavy, divided up into stuff with piccolo bass and stuff with the Alembic. The stuff with the Alembic is tracks 5, 6, and 7. But if you're interested, do check out the whole thing. A lot of work and emotion went into this, and I think it makes some serious musical claims.

I don't know how long I'll leave it up, but it's there for the time being. Again, unmastered, so the volume levels aren't matched from track to track. But you'll get the idea.

Alembic -- the bass, the company, the community -- continues to be an inspiration.

I happened to listen to your music last night. It is just a coincidence that I jumped on soundcloud. Really nice work! Can you post here the feffects used? I am really lovin' this latest addition of material you've posted Hugh. slawie

First, the album was designed as an LP -- tracks 1-4 make up "side 1," while 5-8 make up "side 2." Side 1 is piccolo bass oriented, side two Alembic "regular" bass, except the last track, "The Remnant," which switches back to the style of track 1.

Besides the clean tone w/ reverb on the piccolo bass, I use an EHX Hog and Moog phaser quite a bit, and the Strymon delay.

The Alembic stuff is through a couple of Tech 21 pedals -- the "British" pedal on track 5 and the VT pedal on track 6; OMFG, as they say. Straight up clean tone through reverb and delay on track 7.

My thinking was somewhere along the lines of this: drum parts (and the other instrumentation in general) simple enough that I could get away with playing solo with backing tracks, but complex enough so that it could also be performed with other musicians...so, it could be played either solo, as a duo, or as a trio.

I think the official release date will be June 1st. The masters should hopefully be done this week. Working on artwork now. I have no idea what "releasing an album" even means anymore, but I wrote it as an album, so what the hell. "It is what it is." Sonically, it's on track to be the best thing I've ever done. If I had to pick three albums to give someone, it'd probably be this, The Veldt, and HB3 Plays the Piccolo Bass. "Magic Circles" is a neglected dark horse, though.